daft
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She was unaware parking overnight was banned in the village's long-stay car park, and said not allowing campers to pay to stay in empty or quiet sites seemed "a bit daft".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Where do you suppose he got such daft and dangerous ideas?
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Just how daft was made clearer by this week’s response from Mr. Griffin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Citadel in 2022 moved its headquarters from Chicago to Miami, but it still maintains a large New York presence—which made it a daft target to pick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"You're daft, the both of you," Julian said.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Maybe you think it could be longer, louder, downright dafter?
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Of all golden-age fallacies, none is dafter than that there was a time when politicians purveyed unvarnished truth.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2017
The German winger took all available advantage of Jansen’s clumsy lunge; a hint of moral turpitude in the ease with which he went over, perhaps, but the challenge was dafter than the dive was saucy.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories Totally undanceable, dafter than ever—and a wire-to-wire triumph.
From Slate ● May 21, 2013
And now my conclusion I’ll tell, For faith I’m confoundedly dry; The chiel that’s a fool for himsel’, Gude L—d! he’s far dafter than I. RECITATIVO.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
"She had unerring skill to make the daftest, silliest thing sound absolutely real and absolutely plausible," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2014
"It's one of the daftest mistakes of my life," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2012
And its final shot, as well as failing to resolve any of the hinted-at emotional problems, really is one of the daftest things I have seen for a long time.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2010
Brian Griffith's hunk of brick-built cake is the daftest and most inert of them.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2010
I often tell him he's the daftest in a' the house.—But what are they making sic a skirling for?—Deil ane o' them's get in here—it wadna be mensfu'!
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
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